Lee Lockwood

Professor of Economics, University of Virginia

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Winner of the 2019 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security
  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Faculty Co-Director, EconTAI

Lee M. Lockwood is Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on public finance, social insurance, the economics of aging, and the economics of AI, especially AI safety. Drawing on price theory and public finance, he studies how policy can steer AI development toward good outcomes.

Lockwood holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and a B.S. in industrial engineering and economics from Northwestern University. In 2019 he won the University of Virginia’s Research Achievement Award.